Posts Tagged with feedback

So, you’ve been promoted to manager/supervisor. Congratulations! You’re excited and apprehensive at the same time. What can you do now to ensure your success? As an individual contributor, you had to manage your own job-related tasks, and likely also interface with other members of your team or department. Now you have different tasks of your…

Ask Alice: How do I “manage up” when my boss has clearly over committed the resources of our department? We are a high-profile department and he seems to be saying yes and promising things to clients and stakeholders without understanding what it takes to get those things done. Alice Says: It sounds as if your…

Here are three ways to avoid the negative effects of well-intentioned feedback: When others give you feedback, ask yourself, in every case, “What’s the best possible way that person could have intended the feedback s/he’s just given me?” When you give someone feedback, frame your comments in a way that clearly indicates your own positive…